"It's rifts. it dosn't have to make sense"
just go with it. don't get bogged down in realism. it's more fun this way, trust me
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Omni, don't expect the PB staff to put so much thought into stuff. Sometimes you just have to pull an explanation outta yer butt. I mean some guy just "made up" the power hopping movement style and got it published without thinking it through, so why can't you just "make up" a satisfactory explanation for how it works?
Qev wrote:Power jumping works in Rifts because the game designers watched Bubblegum Crisis or somesuch. Physics has nothing to do with it.
omnicrondelicious wrote:And why not just be able to do a jet-assisted run without the jumps? Why is the running speed limited to 40mph?
C.R.A.F.T. wrote:Drakenred wrote:well the reason why it works is because you have people who dont work with real physics or weapon systems for a living makeing a game. . . . . .
thats my story and Im sticking with it!
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The best answer I've heard so far.
Physics don't change just because you can't explain how something works.
Killer Cyborg wrote:Generally, I chalk most stuff like this up to "Highly Advanced Science That Seems Incomprehensible To Our Primitive 20th Century Minds".
Qev wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:Generally, I chalk most stuff like this up to "Highly Advanced Science That Seems Incomprehensible To Our Primitive 20th Century Minds".
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from bad game design?"
(apologies to Arthur C Clarke...)